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Chelsea Guo is emerging as a remarkable new kind of musical artist, equally inspired and highly regarded as both a pianist and a soprano. As she forges her own unique, multi-faceted path, Chelsea is winning plaudits from critics and audiences alike across the classical music world.

A recent graduate of The Juilliard School, Chelsea鈥檚 concert career is flourishing internationally, with a wide range of performances in major venues across North America, Europe and Asia. She has distinguished herself鈥攂oth as pianist and vocalist, and occasionally as her own accompanist鈥攎ost recently at The Gilmore鈥檚 Rising Stars Series and in her solo debuts at Kennedy Center and Merkin Hall in New York. These recitals, made possible by her historic win at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions as the first ever artist to win in two disciplines, featured her unique programming. The program, highlighting Chelsea鈥檚 interest in the fascinating connectivity between piano and vocal literature, included repertoire inspired by the musical partnership between Fr茅d茅ric Chopin and the singer-pianist Pauline Viardot鈥攊ncluding Viardot鈥檚 settings of twelve Chopin mazurkas to French poetry.

Having performed at New York鈥檚 Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and London鈥檚 Wigmore Hall and with notable festivals throughout the United States and Germany such as the Fazioli Piano Festival in Italy, the Miami Piano Festival and the Moritzburg Festival in Germany, Chelsea also often performs as both pianist and soprano in orchestral engagements. At the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, she performed as a soloist in Shostakovich鈥檚 Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mahler Symphony No. 4. San Diego Story wrote, 鈥淗er lithe soprano uplifted every phrase with ingratiating sonic purity鈥� I simply did not want Guo to stop.鈥�

Other orchestral projects include a collaboration with The Florida Orchestra and Michael Francis, performing as pianist in Falla鈥檚 Nights in the Gardens of Spain and as soprano in Villa-Lobos鈥檚 Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, an an all-Mozart program with the Gorz贸w Philharmonic and Przemys艂aw Fiugajski featuring the Piano Concerto No. 22, Exsultate Jubilate, and the concert aria 鈥淐h鈥檌o mi scordi di te鈥�, and a late romantic program with The Lakeside Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Meyer including Grieg鈥檚 Piano Concerto in A minor and Rachmaninoff鈥檚 Vocalise.

Chelsea鈥檚 debut recording, Chopin: In My Voice (Orchid Classics), earned international acclaim. Gramophone named it one of its 鈥淓ssential New Albums,鈥� writing, 鈥淎s both a pianist and singer Chelsea Guo is clearly a special talent.鈥� WQXR and Naxos China selected the recording among their 鈥淏est Albums of the Month.鈥� True to her artistic vision, Chelsea paired major Chopin piano works with two of the composer鈥檚 songs and a Rossini aria鈥攁ccompanying herself. She was subsequently named one of Classic FM鈥檚 鈥淩ising Stars: 30 Brilliant Musicians We鈥檙e Celebrating in 2022,鈥� which led to her appearance in a Sky TV feature on the series. She has since been heard on Chicago鈥檚 WFMT and frequently on WQXR鈥檚 Young Artist Showcase.

As of the 2024鈥�2025 season onwards, Chelsea has expanded into the world of opera, with which she balances concert performing. In the summer of 2024, she joined Wolf Trap Opera鈥檚 Studio Artist Program, appearing in productions of La boh猫me and Cos矛 fan tutte. In May 2025, she joined the Opernstudio of the Volksoper Wien, where she made her Viennese operatic debut at Adelaide in the Austrian premiere of The Enchanted Pig by Jonathan Dove.

In the 2025鈥�2026 season, she sings Frasquita in Carmen, Papagena in Die Zauberfl枚te, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito, among other roles. She covers Violetta in La Traviata and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. Future seasons will include role debuts as Musetta in La boh猫me, Maria in West Side Story, Adele in Die Fledermaus and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi.